In this paper I argue that the politicization of civil society can lead non-state actors to create new international institutions which compete with traditional intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) to provide global public goods; this competition over resources and authority, in turn, can put...

Stalled progress on explaining institutional change is, in part, the result of two conceptual challenges that hinder effective theory building: concept stretching and concept proliferation. These problems affect a hallmark concept of institutional change, path dependence, whose usefulness has...